Casting the Net for What Matters and for Whom?

A Call to Action to [Re]form National Mental Health and Well-Being, March 2024

Co-created by over 130 people at the ALIVE National Centre’s Annual Symposium Holistic Formation March 14-16 2024 at Old Parliament House and the Australian Botanical Gardens, the Call to Action lays the groundwork for creating a meaningful dialogue with all parts of government and leading mental health, social and emotional well-being and suicide prevention research bodies and service sectors. The call asks us all to reflect carefully on policy safety and what’s counted in a national well-being framework and for whom.

After all, we know that what gets counted, gets discussed.  Read our Call to Action to [re]form national mental health and well-being here.

The ALIVE National Centre extends gratitude to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and people with lived-experience of mental ill-health, and carer, family and kinship groups who co-created this call. The ALIVE National Centre extends its thanks to partner organisations, members of its networks and the lived-experience research collective, its board and committee co-chairs and members for contributions during the symposium and to the Community Crowdsourcing Challenge. The Call to Action was co-created by the people who attended in-person and online for the ALIVE National Centre Annual Symposium 2024 for Holistic Formations, listed in alphabetical order by first name here. The Call to Action content was developed from contributions from National Centre meetings with researchers and the lived-experience research collective members contributing ideas about ideas about ‘what does holistic mean for you?’ These ideas formed table topics in a World Cafe and were considered in conjunction with the Measuring What Matters Statement guiding the Australian Government’s National Well-Being Framework.